bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Scrape it off. Lose a millimeter of the stone. Not the end of the world. These are self inflicted bullshit costs that cripple the government. Use common sense. If it's legally impossible, then update the laws to be sane.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
If you give it to everyone, it's not "extra", is it? It's just a longer exam.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Why does it take 85k to remove it from the wall? I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost that much. There is some ridiculous government inefficiency or embezzling happening or some kind of learned helplessness or malicious compliance. Jus
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
If you filter for younger, 25-34, and for employed, it's closer to 50%. For employed young women, it's the majority (for them, if you count associate degrees, it shoots up close to 75%).
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
I'm agnostic on the matter because post training and RLHF on this specific capability could be quite effective. Nobody ever tried because it would cause a backlash and bad PR. Much better PR to solve math problems, help run businesses,
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
I don't think any frontier lab tried to make an LLM optimized for the literal Turing test where the LLM is made to argue that it's human. This is not in their interest. They make their LLMs insist they aren't human, have no f
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Claude Code does allow this. You can talk to the subagents directly and watch what they are doing.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Of course. And mechanistic interpretability research is a thing.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
At low student counts, like 20, (think specialist niche elective master's courses, not the huge bachelor's courses) it's perceived by profs as more efficient in fact than the ordeal of organizing a written exam. With an oral
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
It's very possible but somewhat slower. PyTorch and CUDA have flags for determinism. It won't work across all different GPU models though, but it will get you bitwise equal results on the same GPU.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
American colleges give way more support throughout the studies though. In Europe you're literally alone and nobody cares if you miss deadlines or you're failing out. No general consultations, no extra departments and admin bloat.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Grading written exams is delegated to teaching assistants / PhD students.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Oral exams are still common in Germany and many European countries in case of smaller courses taken by 20-30 students in a semester, and sometimes even in larger courses, and the task of examining is then split among multiple professors and
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
None, but have interacted with American students at European universities and they were very lost without all the coddling and all kinds of support infrastructure and basically getting their life organized by administrators who personally a
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Or like Europe. You don't pay tuition, but if you slack off, and don't progress properly, you only have a limited number of exam retries and limited number of funded semesters. If you fail, you're out, choose another professi
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
European universities also have accommodations and extra time etc. And yes it's an arms race. Though at some point it will simply inflate away the value of the degree, but educators will stand there baffled, not understanding how it co
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
The US consists of many small parts too, and it may work in each of those small parts.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Regular graded assignments is the "treated like children" version. The adult treatment is that you can come to class if you want, you can do the assignments if you want, but if not, that's fine too. There is one test at the e
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
4 months is ancient. Fable and Sol are a different animal.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Why would it need to be revolutionary? It can be some ordinary thing. Software is mostly ordinary.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Bullshit. You can be cynical, it's fine but this is just nonsense. People have so much demand for coding that there is no need to make it waste tokens. People are eager to implement more features, do more testing, more platforms, more
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Persistence in problem solving can be good, on non-hacking tasks too. Like math, speeding up algorithms, finding bugs, debugging weird multithreading race conditions etc.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
If you want to sell something, you need a buyer. This is my point.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Not at all.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Is "economics" some god of the pantheon or how can he force things? No, in reality, people do not want to pay for what he wants to sell. It's concrete people. Not something disembodied.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Get paid enough by who and for what reason? Do they realize that the money has to come from someone who decides to pay it out of their own free will?
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
HN moment. The median lawyer isn't who you think it is.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Do concerts. It's the old way. It's human and personal. It's effort though, not passive income like album sales used to be.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
It has always been a type of propaganda. Always. Journalism was always low status among actual authors, novelists and poets. It was considered selling out already in the 19th century. The sort of thing that pays bills but requires compromis
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
You have to do something that is truly effective and productive, otherwise you live a fake life, you live in a zoo, you live a performance. If nobody actually needs your work's output and you are simply allowed to do it out of some kin

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